Full Description
This comprehensive Handbook offers an in-depth exploration of the relationship between the educational system and the labour market. It examines the role of education in generating skills for work and life, the needs and expectations of the labour market, and the ways in which social inequalities permeate the link between school and work.
Expert authors discuss the transition from school to work, focusing on education as an individual investment and a relative position in society, whilst also being a means of legitimating inequalities. They investigate the skills demand in the labour market, looking at the occurrence of over- and under- qualification and returns to education. The Handbook also addresses policy implications, crucially advocating for a closer alignment between education and labour market systems.
Students and researchers specialising in education and labour policy will greatly benefit from this discerning Handbook, as will those studying management and the sociology of education and work. It is also a vital resource for practitioners and policymakers working in the school system, the labour market and their interaction.
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction to Handbook on Education and the Labour Market 1
Ellu Saar and Péter Róbert
PART I SUPPLY SIDE: THE ROLE OF EDUCATION GENERATING SKILLS
FOR WORK AND LIFE
2 Why education matters: on the interplay of three different mechanisms 17
Arie C. Glebbeek and Rolf van der Velden
3 Vocational education and training: typologies, labour market returns,
challenges and developments 37
Ellu Saar and Liisa Martma
4 Higher education: vocational and academic skills 58
Felix Weiss
5 Lifelong learning and skill formation over the life course 70
Richard Desjardins and Hui Huang
6 Off the beaten track: lessons from trade union education in Australia 87
Mary Leahy, Alice Garner, John Polesel, Anthony Forsyth and Renee Burns
PART II DEMAND SIDE: LABOUR MARKET
7 Skill-biased technological change: a critical assessment 107
Michael J. Handel
8 The futures of work: what education can and can't do 140
John Buchanan, Stephanie Allais, Michael Anderson, Rafael A. Calvo,
Sandra Peter and Tamson Pietsch
9 Trends in skill demand and labor market outcomes: the role of
digitalization 164
Marlis Buchmann and Helen Buchs
10 Workplace learning and Complexity Theory: the telos of small groups 183
Paul Hager and David Beckett
PART III RETURNS TO EDUCATION
11 Intra- and inter-cohort trends in returns to education in Israel 200
Limor Gabay-Egozi and Meir Yaish
12 Does vocational education protect graduates from skills mismatches? 238
Seamus McGuinness, Anne Devlin and Adele Whelan
13 Aligning workers' learning and innovations at work 256
Stephen Billett and Anh Hai Le
PART IV INEQUALITIES IN EDUCATION AND THE LABOUR MARKET
14 Gender inequalities in occupational outcomes: an overview from a
comparative and life course perspective 276
Moris Triventi, Giovanna Scarchilli and Anna Zamberlan
15 Skills and integrating migrants into the labour market 296
Jacobo Muñoz-Comet and María Miyar-Busto
16 Age, skills and the labour market: supporting at-risk older jobseekers to
become work-ready 318
Philip Taylor, Shoaib Riaz and Catherine Earl
17 Parenthood, skills, and the dynamics of labour market attachment 340
Katharina Klug and Sonja Drobnič
PART V INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
18 Skill formation: embeddedness in institutional contexts 361
Gerhard Bosch
19 Supply and demand shocks in apprenticeship markets and the role of
institutions 376
Samuel Muehlemann
20 Recognition of Prior Learning outcomes and learning outside of the formal
learning system 389
Patrick Werquin
